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Rina Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India; immigrated to London at the age of 3 and to New York at 7. 

After graduating from Yale School of Art in 1995, it did not take long for Rina Banerjee’s career to have weight.  In 1997, she had her first solo exhibition, Home Within a Harem, at Colgate University, and was included in two group shows, AIM curated by Marisol Nieves at the Bronx Museum and “Out of India” curated by the late Jane Farver of the Queens Museum.  Following shows in New York, Virginia, Toronto, Hartford, and South Africa, Banerjee was invited to participate in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.   Since then her work has been in dozens of solo and group shows, as well as in biennials throughout the world. 

As an international artist and post-colonial feminist scholar and humanist, Banerjee has written that “origin is no place at all and can only be fabricated out of difference, division designed out of exclusion and extraordinary harm.  Country as home is a contemporary concept riddled with empires….”  Her work speaks to being uprooted, war, American imperialism, searching for identity, and being the other even in the place where one was born or where one lives.

For more information and images visit: https://www.hunterdonartmuseum.org/exhibitions/rina-banerjee/